 | Adam Smith - 1836 - 538 sider
...to have been beneficial to all, ruinous and destructive to several of those unfortunate countries. The discovery of a passage to the East Indies by the Cape of Good Hope, which happened much about the same time, opened, perhaps, a still more extensive range to foreign commerce... | |
 | William Robertson - 1836 - 662 sider
...fatal consequences to their republic, which the sagacity of the Venetian senate foresaw on the first discovery of a passage to the East Indies by the Cape of Good Hope, actually took place. Their endeavours to prevent the Portuguese trom establishing themselves in the... | |
 | 1837 - 556 sider
...various lands, and surrounded by the dominions of powerful neighbors, soon ceased to be the same, when the discovery of a passage to the East Indies by the Cape of Good Hope, and of the New World, gave a new direction to the commerce of Europe, and broke up the monopoly which... | |
 | John George Cochrane - 1837 - 582 sider
...various lands, and surrounded by the dominions of powerful neighbours, soon ceased to be the same, when the discovery of a passage to the East Indies by the Cape of Good Hope, and of the New World, gave a new direction to the commerce of Europe, and broke up the monopoly which... | |
 | Philip Alexander Prince - 1838 - 702 sider
...power. Although the oligarchy maintained its ground, its decline commenced just at this juncture, from the discovery of a passage to the East Indies by the Cape of Good Hope. Tlit greater portion of Indian goods imported into Europe had hitherto passed through the hands of... | |
 | William Robertson - 1838 - 658 sider
...fatal consequences to their republic, which the sagacity of the Venetian senate foresaw on the first discovery of a passage to the East Indies by the Cape of Good Hope, actually took place. Their endeavours to prevent the Portuguese from establishing themselves in the... | |
 | 1840 - 760 sider
...world. His views are thus set forth in his immortal work: — ' ' The discovery of America, and that of a passage to the East Indies by the Cape of Good Hope, are the two greatest and most important events recorded in the history of mankind. Their consequences... | |
 | System - 1840 - 376 sider
...occurrence of scurvy at sea is to be met with in the narrative of Vasco de Gama, who first discovered a passage to the East Indies by the Cape of Good Hope, in the year l497 ; about a hundred of bit men, out of a hundred and sixty, died of this distemper, f The... | |
 | Samuel Perkins - 1841 - 484 sider
...written language. The Portuguese first established commercial settlements in Ceylon, soon after their discovery of a passage to the East Indies by the Cape of Good Hope. Their cruelty, avarice, and fanaticism, evinced in suppressing the religion ol the natives, and converting... | |
 | Samuel Perkins - 1842 - 500 sider
...written language. The Portuguese first established commercial settlements in Ceylon, soon after their discovery of a passage to the East Indies by the Cape of Good Hope. Their cruelty, avarice, and fanaticism, evinced in suppressing the religion of the natives, and converting... | |
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The discovery of America, and that of a passage to the East Indies by the Cape of Good Hope, are the two greatest and most important events recorded in the history of mankind. 
